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13"Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct."
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130 How children are socialized today determined the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society.
Wisdom is rightfully attributed not to people who know what to look for in life but to people who know what to overlook."
Never before in history have people been so beset with the overflow of ideas and images that the modern human must endure.
We are constantly bombarded with news, advertising, and entertainment, so much so that we are often at a loss as to where we should focus our attention.
This has lead to what many media critics have called "information anxiety," a term used to describe the paralysis the ordinary human experiences when attempting to organize and synthesize the vast amounts of data that move past her everyday.
Now, more than ever before, it can be seen that wisdom truly is attributable to those "who know what to overlook."
The Internet is a good example of the effects of information overload on people.
Many people receive hundreds of email messages a day, yet there is no possible way for them to respond, let alone read, all of these messages.
Through practice they learn to pick out what will be of interest and to ignore the rest.
A similar phenomena occurs when a person is "browsing the web."
Information, both trivial and profound, float by in a disorganized way.
A person learns to ignore what is not relevant to their search.
This is easily demonstrated by watching a person new to the Internet next to someone who is a veteran of the net.
The new person will stumble on loads of irrelevant information while the veteran will most likely proceed to the information she seeks.
This ability to overlook useless information is not only applicable to the net; consider the older but more established form of information known as the book.
Ever since Guttenberg rolled out his first few pages from his press humans have been wondering how to synthesize all this knowledge.
Each year more and more books are written and published, more and more information is available to the public through bookstores and libraries, and each year the average person must struggle harder to find what she needs to know..
This is one of the primary reasons people are sent to college:
they are taught how to access and research information they need.
It is only through experience that one understands how to overlook useless data.
This is most likely what the author of the above quote meant.